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Index.
March, H. CoUey, Dorsetshire Folk- lore collected in 1897., 478
Marchen, 45, 50
Marriage, customs and beliefs, African, traces of group-marriage among the Baronga, 225, customs in Zanzibar, 229 ; Australian, 8, 36, of the Arunta tribe, 235 ; English, doors locked during ceremony, 350, woman married in her shift, 476 : Hebridean, lucky day for, 267 ; Indian, 438, divorce in, 409-10, the swayamvara, 429 ; Japanese, ritual of, early, 300
group, tribal and anti-tribal, as
connected with water or fire cus- toms, 143
Married people, binding-spells for, 154, spells to unbind, 157, 159
Mars, 453
Marsh-ragwort, lucky against Evil Eye, Hebrides, 275
Martin Down, problem of its en- trenchment, 94-5
Martyrs, names of worn round neck,
154
Mary-beans, worn as charms, 262
May-Day, garlands and processions on at King's Lynn, 443 ; in con- nection with invisibility charm, Cos, 171 ; switching the cattle, Germany, 180
festivals, oak-leaves in, 102
Ladies at King's Lynn, (foot- note) by Dr. Plowright, {ill. ), 443
May-Pole dances, Dorsetshire, 481, 482
season for divination by the
Voice, 154
the Twenty-first, food carried
from house to house, Calymnos, 181
Mayo, County, folklore of, 122
Meave's army, Irish folklore, 218
Mecklenburg, cattle-switching on May Day, 180
Mediseval folk-poetry and modern, 98
Medicine, {sec Folk-medicine), gods of in Japan, 309
men, N. American Indian,
Japanese parallels, 307
Medical folklore, {see also Diseases), Ague, charms against, Greek Isles, 165, cure for, Suffolk, 365 ; beads or silk worn to keep off diseases, Greek Isles, 154: Burns and scalds
cures for, Kilkenny, 252 ; Con- sumption, snakeskin as cure for, Zanzibar, 231 ; Dislocation spell, 331 ; Erysipelas, charm against, 167 ; Fevers, bears' hairs and claws to prevent, 155 ; Headache to pre- vent, 154 ; King's Evil, toad cure for, 479-80 : Pleurisy, charm against, 331 ; Rheumatism, charm against, Greek Isles, 154, sacred tree, and passing through window in chapel to cure sick child, ib., 181 ; snakes to bring health, ib., 154 ; sudden feeling of sinking, cured by butter in warm milk, 280 ; Sunstroke, charm against, Greek Isles, 166-7 > Wart cure, 479 ; Whooping-cough cure, 488-9 Medical folklore from Cos, 165 Meetings, 58, 59, 60, 257, 294, 324,
383. 443> 444 Meleager, story of, 453 Melkarth of Tyre and parallel, 230 Members deceased, 58, 59, 63, 383,
443 elected, 58, 59, 63, 257, 294,
383. 443
first Honorary, elected, 67
resigned, 58, 59, 257, 294 3S3,
resignation withdrawn, 443 Mermen and maidens, Scandinavian
folklore, 460 Merseburger Gebet, in Finn Songs,
331 Messages from the gods, Japan,
307-8 Metals, {see Copper, Iron, Lead,
Nails, Pins), unlucky to use in
tilth on Friday, Hebrides, 268 Metempsychosis, in Indian folktales,
411, 412, in Scandinavian tales,
455
Metamorphosis, (^see also Shapeshift- ing,), in Indian folktales, 410
Mexican objects presented by Pro- fessor F. Starr, 66, exhibited and explained by him, 445
Michael, the Archangel, 162
Midnight Children, by F. Peacock,
"5 Midnight, the ghosts' hour, India,
395 . . visitors, rules for admitting,
Hebrides, 269 Midsummer, see St. John's Eve and
Day Mikados, the, of Japan, deified, 317
